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Old 22nd June 2008
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Originally Posted by scottro View Post
VMware server does have the ease of use thing, especially with bridged networking.
If by ease-of-use, you mean "there's one way to do it, using one interface, and there's no configuration possible". (And don't get me started on how horrible the network setup in Xen has become.)

The really nice thing about KVM is that you don't have to learn a new way of networking. You use the tools in the host OS to configure the network. If you want eth0 to be your bridge, you can. If you want eth3 through eth6 to be separate bridges assigned to separate VMs, without IPs, with eth0 a management interface with an IP, you can. If you want to create a large bond0 using eth1 through eth6, and then use that for the bridge, you can. Anything you can do normally in Linux networking, you can configure for the networking for the VMs.

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I do find VMware rather resource intensive. I don't like the direction that they seem to be going with their 2.0 beta, though I guess it's aimed at a very powerful server running several VMs. Rather than give you the console of the machine by default, it gives you a web management interface.
Yes, that is really going in the wrong direction, IMO. I participated in the beta process for a bit, and wrote up a report for them on how bad the web GUI was, how slow it was, how unstable it was, how resource intensive it was, and to please, please, please bring back a native management console. Not everything needs to be web-based.
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